Meiosis

Meiosis is the formation of gametes from germ-line cells in a process which reduces the chromosome number by half and creates four haploid cells with half the chromosome level. These cells undergo meiosis toproduce haploid gametes, which merge to form diploid cells. Similar to mitosis, the cells involved go through the same process, and they are duplicated before being attached to each other and going through the two cell division events. In Meiosis 1, two unique daughter cells are created; in Meiosis 2, four unique haploid cells (with one copy of each chromosome) are produced to form gametes, which are used in sexual reproduction.